The Soul's Complaint against the Body

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From the Anglo-Saxon

Much it behoveth / Each one of mortals, / That he his soul's journey / In himself ponder, / How deep it may be. / When Death cometh, / The bonds he breaketh / By which were united / The soul and the body.

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